How To Make Health Care More Affordable:

[unixronin]

How to make health care more available and affordable, according to Congress:

1. Eliminate inexpensive bare-bones insurance plans.
2. Make everyone buy every possible kind of coverage, whether they need them or not.  Make teetotallers buy substance-abuse coverage and single men buy pediatric and maternity coverage.
3. De facto tax prescription drugs.
4. De facto tax medical devices.
5. De facto prohibit expanding hospitals or building new ones.

I wish I was making this up.

(Thanks to montieth for the pointer.)

Comments

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

I'm still laughing. BHO cashed all his chips to get this passed, and spent the last shred of most of his allies future in the process. But it's a fore-gone conclusion that this will make an appearance before SCOTUS - who just happened to be pissed off at BHO because of the insult he tossed at them in his first SOTU address.

So this will never be enforced, and will be overturned by SCOTUS.

[fruitylips.livejournal.com]

I tend to doubt that the SCOTUS will do anything. There's a solid 4 votes for it. Given recent 'General Welfare' and 'Interstate Commerce' jurisprudence, there's no reason for Kennedy to vote no.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Besides which, the SCOTUS is kinda supposed to be impartial and not pay any attention to whether or not one or another party to a case has flipped them the bird lately.

(I mean, sure, it's not an ideal world, but....)